Sorry anon, we've decided to move forward and not publish your work.
>>25464654If you're half-competent, just submit under a female pen name, you'll increase your chances ten fold.
>>25464662What's a good female pseudonym?
>>25464662I feel like publishing houses are gonna start implementing background checks to prevent this kinda thing if they haven’t already
>>25464669Cunty McCuntface
>>25464662Androgynous first name so you have a plausible defense if you’re accused of trying to take advantage of quotasVaguely black-coded last name like Jackson
>>25464654>I love free market capitalism! Let he who has merit rise to the top!>NOO NOT LIEK THAT!!
>>25464662How do you navigate the situation where you get dropped and sued by the publisher when they find out you're not a woman?
>>25464669Bitchslog McHopper
>>25464669Patricia Lovewell
>>25464698>>I love free market capitalism!Meds, the Free market died and went to heaven in 1913. The west is only capitalist compared to Soviet Russia and 30's fascists, which is a bar so low an ant could jump over it, even communist China has less regulations than America these days, it's a joke to make westerners think their government is substantially different from any other these days, it's not.
>>25464654I don't think anne Hathaway is an agent
this meme has potential but im not into it as of now
>>25464662>hey anon your work appears to have some potential but our publisher would like to see how good you are at sucking balls could you come in
>>25464732What government regulations would you remove that would incentivize publishers to publish more male authors?
>>25464669Anita Bath.
>>25464669Pussy Galore
>>25464706Is this not just straight-up gender discrimination? I call up the most Jewish lawyer I can find
>>25464706How can you get sued for simply using a penname that's female?
>>25464669Dixie Cox>>25464654That's okay. Thank you for your time and consideration. I hope you do well in your life
>>25464698>it's the free market that is behind DEI qoutas that the general public do not care forLeftists really believe this, huh? Is this why every movie and video game that shoehorns liberal identity politics flops?
>>25465155You know except the ones that didn't
>>25464706>claim that you used to be a woman, but successfully transitioned to a man>claim the female names are your "deadname" and request that future printings go to your "new" male identity
>>25464654I knew I shouldn't have turned my cam on
>>25465179Like what? >inb4 OdysseyNot woke beyond some dreadful casting decisions.
Typical of /lit/ to make up scenarios like this when they haven't even written anything
>>25465155Anon you're changing the subject though, what would you do to increase the number of male authors? I'm waiting for one of you idiots to say "mandatory government quotas" since you're a half step away from claiming men are a disadvantaged class. Couldn't be because you're mentally inferior i wonder?Anyway anyone can set up a publishing company and market and print books. You get that right? Andrew Tate and Elon Musk and whoever else could recruit and pay men, and only men, to write books aimed at men. But they don't. Because it would be a massive waste of money.
>Thank you for considering submitting your manuscript to Bullshit Small Press Nobody Reads!>Please note that we have a strict no-simultaneous-submissions policy.>Our consideration period is 10 to 12 months.
>>25465372forgot to add>Only after a year when it becomes clear we've forgotten about you may you follow up with us.
25465364>what would you do to increase the number of male authors?Obvious bait but I'll bite. Publish things people want to read. In fact, the market has been yearning for male authors recently. There have been countless articles written about it, some of which have been posted on here. It's really not that difficult. The average man above the age of 30 has read a book. In the 90s-00s there were countless bestselling authors who were men and were read by men. Just because retards on Twitter don't read doesn't mean the average male doesn't. Even if all they read is thrillerslop or sci-fi, it is still reading. >Anyway anyone can set up a publishing company and market and print booksIt's really as easy as that?
>>25464691What if I don't live in America and all the blacks here have names like Ngon'gwele
>>25465346>they haven't even written anythingYou're wrong
>>25465387No Waldun?
>>25465380>Just because retards on Twitter don't read doesn't mean the average male doesn't.You can't just act like it's still the 90s, men who would have got into reading are into video games and sports gambling now. There's no audience for maleslop books that aren't terrible self help shit. The average male is too stupid and unimaginative to read fiction.
>>25464654This is when you give a reasonable, sane response and then politely leave. This is not the time to get into insane bullshit like this thread in that scenario IRL. I worry about the social graces of this board
>>25464654her smile looks like ai generated even though it's real i know cause of the buck teeth
>>25465129Dixie Rekt
>>25464669Roa St. Beef
>>25465389Not a confirmed /lit/ user (I've never seen him post)
>>25464654THIS IS WHY WOMEN SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO VOTE, YOU STUPID FOID.
>>25464662>>25464669Pick a unisex name that trends feminine. If you go with a female name and it comes out, it'll blow up in your face. If you go with a name like Ashley, you have probable deniability.
>>25465406Most who would genuinely throw a fit over this wouldn't find themselves getting that far anyway
>>25465387Sorry about the initial version of The Chemical Divorce; it was rushed out the door because we had hired too many beta readers and feared one would leak the text. The new edition is much better
>>25464662>>25464706Wouldn't they find out your real name anyway when you sign a contract?
>>25464654that's fine, this was kind of just an experiment. i'm actually going to pay a private proof-reader, then, after making any revisions, puchase copies of my own design directly from the printer and read my own work aloud on the street corners like a crazy person.
>>25464706Happened to me (sort of). I'd recommend just shrugging it off and moving onto your next project. There's no money in books. What are they gonna sue you over?
>>25465155>baldur's gate 3 flopped
>>25465323Barbie
>>25465107that's actually a good idea. thanks.
>>25465364if you really think about it, most things are a waste of money these days.
>>25465385how did you even get internet access? do you live in Cameroon or some shit?
>>25464669https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Porn_Star#Female
>>25464654Actually getting a reply would be a step up.Most don't bother with even that much.
>>25464674They don't need to.You have to submit your actual identification information to get paid or sign legally binding contracts. Pen names are for the public. Unless you want to pay a lawyer to act as a representative you aren't able to do proper business fully anonymously.
Ok. I appreciate your consideration and I will now go end myself.
>>25464654Self publish. It's humiliating to rely on some romantasy and other slop pushing fags and roasties to get your ideas out there.
>>25464669Miriam Appleton. It sounds like the name of some miserable dried up old jew.
>>25464669Nancy Preg
>>25464706Isn’t that supposed to be illegal? It’s blatant sexism.
>>25467959It's fine when women do it.Same reason female only gyms and clubs are fine but male only spaces are sued into oblivion. Hell, even a support group for dudes with prostate cancer got sued out of existence for not having enough female members. Men bad. White straight men are the worst. Women good. Gay women of color are the best.Such is modern morality of the establishment.
>>25464662if you use a foidname you have to write foidslop though
>>25467254Not woke. >>25467191Wasn't the target audience of Baldur's Gate 3 gay tranny nerds who are obsessed with DnD? So yes, it was successful, for its intended market. Most people wouldn't have heard of it.
>>25467959>that's blatent sexismYet publishers get away with it every day, along with blatent racism.
>>25464732>real free market capitalism has never been tried
>>25465387& is actually pretty legit. I don't know if it ever came out but I remember the anon in charge of it was working on a "best of" issue
>>25468310Here's the comp from the charthttps://the-best-of-amp.github.io/
>>25465387>&It's not good, but there was some stuff in there that's surprisingly not terrible. A few of the posters here can actually write
>>25468246>Most people wouldn't have heard of it.BG3 has sold over 20 million copies, more than almost any Call of Duty game.
>>25468246>Barbie>Not wokelollmao even
>>25465380>There have been countless articles written about it, some of which have been posted on hereThe premise is fallacious. It's the job market situation all over again>make efforts to push men out of thing>thing becomes female dominated>Headline reads "stupid lazy men refuse to do thing, women most affected"
>>25465364you are disingenous. You know full well men's tax dollars are funelled into programs and incentives for women to publish. We are complaining that the "government quotas" exist in the first place. If a publishing house decided to only publish works by men it would be ground to dust by the big gynolatria machine
>>25467185Tell us your story.
>>25468276>"correcting" blatant to "blatent"Bruh...
>>25468933good job calling him out on that blatent mistake
>>25468783NTA but the unintended message of Barbie was that the patriarchy is awesome and makes the vast majority of men and women happy, only for it to be ruined by a small group of emotionally dysfunctional and insufferable wenches who brainwash the rest of the female population. I could be wrong, however, as I have not yet attained my media literacy degree from reddit university.
>>25464698If you really think you have something good then self publish. Watch as everyone who eventually reads it thinks it is shit anyway
>>25464669LaTrasha Green
>>25464662doesn't work, you can't get an agent without them having a call with you when they're looking to offer representation. virtually no agent is going to want to touch a guy using a female pseudonym, their all hardcore leftists>>25464698sure, in a sense it's the "free market," but the publishing industry is in serious decline. wages for all but the very, very top are poverty-tier and have basically been flat for 20+ years. fiction sales are more or less flat (and fiction sales outside of romance/smut are decreasing heavily). readership is shrinking - the only growth area is that smut readers are getting more prolific in their purchasing, and are buying fancier and fancier versions of smut. the free market is "working" in the sense that the industry is dying except for smut, but the point of the posts here are that the industry would be doing better if it weren't blatantly discriminatory against men.>>25467959it's illegal, but it happens at the literary agent level, and 1) there's no one in the US federal government who wants to enforce the law in this area, and 2) an individual would have to pay big money to bring a case on their own. even a lawyer working on contingency wouldn't touch It because the projected payout would be essentially nil
>>25468246>umm that example doesn't count because it just doesn't, okayyyyy
>>25469575You can't name one successful woke work. You can name thousands that flopped because of woke, you can name a handful that succeeded despite woke (because they were massively popular already), but you can't name one thing that succeded because of woke.You fumble almost everything you touch and you're stupid enough to brag about it.
>>25469637They're brain cancer. Their idea of a win is "Yeah, we killed millions but we didn't kill these three people, see?"
>>25464669LaShanta Publishauthor Jones
>>25464654im so fucking hopeless that at this point when I see her smug face all I want is to get dominated by her.
>>25464654>pulls out gun and fires a single bullet between her eyesYou were saying?
>>25469702
>>25469705Whoa! That's a HARDCORE response, anon! Fuck, anon, that's so fucking BASED of you to say! HOLY FUCKING BASED!!!!
>>25469637>You can't name one successful woke work.Baldur's Gate 3
>>25464669George Eliot
>>25466351this. dumb larp thread of ngmiers seething at shitty society>>25467887nice
>>25465387No one on /lit/ wrote any video game? It’s probably easier to market a visual novel or rpg.
>>25464654Imagine squirting hot, thick semen right into her face and mouth as she makes that smile. WOW.
>>25469718true
Someone I know found out I was using a female pseudonym and she accused me of catfishing and said she no longer felt safe around me.
